~Minnaloushe
Demeter:
Macavity!
Mungojerrie:
Mungojerrie…
Rumpelteazer:
…and Rumpelteazer
Both:
We’re a notorious couple of cats
Rumpelteazer:
As knockabout clowns, quick change comedians
Tight-rope walkers and acrobats
Mungojerrie:
We have an extensive reputation
We make our home in Victoria Grove
This is merely our center of operation
Both:
For we are incurably given to rove!
Rumpelteazer:
When the family assembled for Sunday dinner
Their minds made up that they won’t get thinner
Mungojerrie:
On Argentine joint…
Rumpelteazer:
…potatoes and greens
Then the cook would appear from behind the scenes
Mungojerrie:
And say in a voice that was broken with sorrow:
"I’m afraid you must wait and have dinner tomorrow
The joint has gone from the oven like that!"
Both:
Then the family’ll say: "It’s that ‘orrible cat!"
Mungojerrie:
Was it Mungojerrie?
Rumpelteazer:
Or Rum-pelteazer?
Both:
And most of the time, they leave it at that!
Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer have a wonderful way
Of working together
And some of the time you would say it was luck
And some of the time you would say it was weather
We go through the house like a hurricane
Mungojerrie:
And no sober person…
Both:
…could take his oath
Mungojerrie:
Was it Mungojerrie?
Rumpelteazer:
Or Rum-pelteazer?
Both:
Or could you have sworn that it mightn’t be both?
And when you hear a dining room smash!
Or up from the pantry there comes a loud crash!
Or down from the library came a loud ping!
From a vase which was commonly said to be Ming
Then the family’ll say: "Now, which was which cat?"
Mungojerrie:
It was…Mungojerrie!
Rumpelteazer:
AND…Rum-pelteazer!
Both:
And there’s nothing at all to be done about that!
All Jellicles:
And there’s nothing at all to be done about that!